In an amendment to the Children and Social Work Act 2017, it became a 2 legal requirement in England on 1 September 2020 for : • All primary schools to teach relationships education • All secondary schools to teach relationships and sexual education • Reformed statutory guidance for schools • The right of parents to withdraw their children from sex education, with new rights for a child approaching age 16 to ‘opt-in’ • Schools to remain flexible in their approach, including faith schools being allowed to teach within the tenets of their faith As a result of the amendment to the Act, guidance states that pupils should know “that there are choices in relation to pregnancy (with medically and legally accurate, impartial information on all options, 1 https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/citizen-participation-and-public-petitions- committee/correspondence/2022...